3.6.2026 at 17.30–18
3.6.2026 at 19–19.30
5.6.2026 at 17.15–18.45
5.6.2026 at 19–19.30

Outside Kiasma & Stoa’s Square
Tickets: free admission

A social choreography in public places.

About
common moves revisited is a social choreography or choreography of the community unfolding in public spaces in Helsinki during URB 26 festival. The work operates as a speculative site. Through the act of occupying public space and applying simple scores and choreographies, it questions our conception of what is held in common: social norms or habits; the common as something shared, public, or regularly occurring; the common as something that is not underrepresented or marginalized; or the common as something that does not stop the flow, that belongs. The work softly resists the current by changing and moving what is common.

The work is realised in collaboration with BIPOC artists in Helsinki and is rooted in local conversations and urgencies. The work invites participants to take part in simple, shared movement practices that gently shift how public space by asking:

What could be common here?
What do we wish were common?
And how might we practice that together?

Event information
Facilitated by Ritni Ráste Pieski
Stoa’s Square, Itäkeskus
Wed 3 June at 17.30
Fri 5 June at 17.15

Facilitated by Sophia Wekesa
Close to Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Wed 3 June at 19:00
Fri 5 June at 19.00

NOTE! The groups present their work outside in the open air. If it is heavily raining or there is thunder, the practice will be postponed. In light rain and in other weather conditions the practice is done.

Credits
Concept: Sonya Lindfors
Dramaturg: H Ouramo
Facilitators: Ritni Ráste Pieski, Sophia Wekesa
Production: UTT ry & Kiasma
The work was originally created for the context of Helsinki Biennale 2023

Artists
Sonya Lindfors (she/her) is a Cameroonian- Finnish choreographer and the artistic director of UrbanApa, an inter-disciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new discourses and intersectionality feminist art practices. Lindfors works across choreography, facilitating, curating, community organizing and education. In her recent works, she has been researching decolonial, intersectional and speculative practices. In all her positions she pursues creating and facilitating anti-racist and feminist platforms, where a festival, a performance, a publication or a workshop can operate as the site of empowerment and radical collective dreaming. Lindfors has been awarded with several prizes, the latest of which being the international Live art Anti Prize 2018 and the State Prize for Public information in 2022. More info at www.sonyalindfors.com

Máret Ásllat Ivvár Ovllá Nilla Ritni Ráste, Ritni Ráste Pieski (he/him)is a Deanu river sámi storyteller, choreographer, dancer, performer, and drag artist. He is passionate about stories, dreaming, and playfulness, and dreams of an anti-colonial, liberated society. In drag, he is known as Ritni Tears. Pieski graduated as a Bachelor of Dance from the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2023 and has been working as a freelancer in the performing arts ever since. His latest projects include Indigenous Drag Excellence XXL and Girjái.

Sophia Wekesa (she/they) is a dancer, DJ, and culture activist based in Helsinki. They have a deep love for dancehall and multiple street and club styles. As a DJ, Sophia has built and cultivated environments that prioritize enjoyment and the pure pleasure of dancing. Their approach to music and movement focuses on the healing power of dance and the deep connections it fosters.

H Ouramo (they/them) is an artist, performer and educator based in Helsinki and currently head of Art School Maa, an artist-led and community-based art school. Their work revolves around movements of the singular and the collective body. Their practice engages questions of access, continuity, and recognition: whose work and lives are celebrated, whose are remembered, and whose become the foundations for others to build upon.